Composition flooring



June 24, 1930.

N. L. CAMPBELL COMPOSITION FLOORING Filed June 29, 1926 I I I ATTORNEYS cloth or linoleum 'had formerly been emIployed.

t is the object of my invention to embed the fabric. mosquito netting, when embedded in, the

coats of the late a woven Patented June 24, 1930 CARTHAGE MILLS INCORPORATED,

COMPOSITION FLOORING Application filed June 29,

tinuous piece through the required coating and printlng operations.

The use of paint printed felt base material in theproduction of rugs, strips and runners, printed in such a way as to simulate standard woven carpetings, has been in recent years, in"

very widely extended spite of the fact that the hard, glossy, wear surface produced by the paint is not in any wa similar to woven fabric, and is too cold and hard for domestic uses, except where oil in the paint surface a fabric web material which itself is printed'along withthe base,

.and which is so Open 'in its texture'as to permit the majority, of the wear-.surfacefto e printed as usual, through. the spaces in Such a. fabric, as for example, ground coat, and printed over by the pattern rinting process," will ade-' quately meet t e requirements," "of my invention.

The ultimate 'n the form'of ridges in the normalpaint body, in such a way as to strikingly simuproduct throughout. The surface, of the new flooring is hard and long wearing, but there is none of the glossy surface appearance and feel, nor is the surface hlghly enough reflective to remain quite cold as does the usual paint surfaced fioor-= a fabric webof netting-like character with printing upon it, adds strength to the product against tearing. It holds the printed coatings from running, if it is desired to loop the product in a dryer, immediately after quite definitely covered by paint, so as to beentirely waterproof, and since the design is,

printed over the top of them, the threads of the fabric appear to be part of the whole passed in a cona a d n.

- be fed onto product will show the fabric printing. Its threads are,

OFFICE 1926. Serial No. 119,454.

product instead 0 in the paint.

I accomplish my object by that certain construction and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more specifically pointed out and claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective of a corner of a rug evice made in accordance with my invention.

Figure 2 is a section showing'in a considerably enlarged scale, the structure of the product.

In the preferred form use a base of asphalt saturated elt. This felt may be given a back coat of paint or colored wax to simulate a linoleum back, or

of my roduct, I

Y may beleft untreated, or coated and treated as is the wear surface. f- In forming the product, the felt 1 is first given a ground coat of paint as indicated at 2.. This paint may be laid on fairly thick,

3. preferred process, will be drying in its nature, and printedupon while wet. I

e netting 3 is applied from a roll and imposed by means of a roller to the ground coat 2, while same is wet or quite plastic. Or without use of a roller, the netting may the paint surface as it is smooth by a doctor in such a manner as to embed the fabric and cover its threads with the ground coat paint. The fi paint over the threads is indicated at 4.

he design is thus printed upon the ground coat, in the particular instance being merely embedded q i susceptible of being lm of ground coat where the paint has suflicient body to receive a printed surface, as soon as the fabric is applied, or if the ground coat-is to be dried first, after this has taken place.

In any event, the design is printed as indicated by the film 5, over the coated threads of the netting and down through the openings thereof, upon the base paint, with the result of exposing the netting only in the form of ridges in the finished surface.

The final product is dried as usual, in making floor covering, and cut into rugs or strips, etc., dependent upon the nature of the design imprinted thereon.

The product is uite different in appearance and function rom a body which is impressed with a fabric, so as to form an intaglio design. The fabric leaves an embossed fabric-like surface over the whole product without in any way interfering with the design and its clearness.

he roughened surface is warm to the touch, under circumstances where a smooth unbroken paint surface is cold. The whole body is given greater tensile strength, and less expensive paints can be used, because of omission of costly ingredients used to give high gloss to the paint.

It is essential to my process that the fabric be of quite open work design, so that the design paints can be printed through it on the ground coat paint, since this not only avoids the problem of printing with paints on an expansive woven fabric substance, but it permits the fabric, prior to receiving the design, to be coated with the ground coat, and readily anchored by the paint, and submerged in a permanent resilient inert body from which it cannot be torn.

If desired, the netting can be passed through a bath of the round coating paint, which is the same as orms the ground for the paint design, prior to being applied to the flooring body. Indeed, there is no insistance upon any particular processing to make my product.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1-- In a composition flooring, the combination with a base material of a paint surface thereon, including a ground coat, a piece of open-work fabric or netting embedded there- 40 in and coated thereby, and a design of paint imprinted upon the coated fabric threads and upon the ground coat, in the spaces between the threads.

. NEIL L. CAMPBELL. 

